To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written after April 4, 1916Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich to Berne.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages527b-528.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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Iam sending the theses.Additions, see pp.21and22(they must be inserted in German too).

Idon’t agree with you about Alexander. Unless we see eye to eye (you
and me)I shall abstain, and you can re solve by one vote that
“we have decided to call him”.

(1)Toshow him at the conference would be hisundoing. That
is clear. In Sweden and Norway the Russian Government has no sleuths, but
here the place is alive with them. Martov & Co. will tell the world.

Iam absolutely against his appearing at the conference. I do not
abstain, I am against.

(2)Alexanderhimself is demandinga man to be sent to Russia
(I shall write to Ludmila).

(3)SinceAlexanderis not going, we shouldwait a
bitand call himon the eve of hisdeparture. Otherwise it
will all beto no purpose.

(4)Thereis no need to hurry, all the more asAlexanderwill
be influenced byKievsky; we must bide our time, exchange letters,
etc. (By hastening Alexander’s arrival you will behasteninghis
going over to Bukharin & Co., because Alexander is now all worked
up. But if we wait a bit, the C. 0. will come out, correspondence will be
developed with Mme.Kievsky, I shall make up asetof
documents concerning the vacillations of Bukharin & Co. andAlexanderwill have time to think and see whereBukharin &
Co.are heading, what mess they are getting themselves into.)

Tosend for Alexandernowwill meanfightinghimnow. What for? Over what? If he is not going, we have nothing to
fight over. (We shall receive contacts through conciliator James, etc.)
(James, of course, is to blame.)

Whatabout Radek’s theses?

Wemust wait a bit with the No. on self-determination,if
VorboteNo. 2 comes out before the conference. It isextremelyimportant to squelch Radek’s thesesright
away. Radek’s whipping is inevitable, and on his corpore vili we can
“save a good deal” of the whipping of the Stockholmers.

Findout exactlywhenKedrov is
				going.[1]Is he still in Berne? Is his wife in Lausanne?

Iadviseextremecaution with the Bundist!!! Guardezvous!

Salut,Lenin

[1]Thisrefers to Kedrov’s proposed trip to Russia.—Ed.